News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 316
Compensation Fund for Victims of Bangladesh Factory Collapse Reaches 30-Million-Dollar Target
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) - Two years after a massive garments factory collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing over 1,100 people and leaving more than 2,500 injured, a major international fund has met its target of raising 30 million dollars to be paid out in compensation to the victims and their families.
U.N. Chief Backs New Int’l Decade for Water for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues its negotiations to both define and refine a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before a summit meeting of world leaders in September, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed support for a new "International Decade for Water for Sustainable Development."
Why ACP Countries Matter for the EU Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jun 09 (IPS) - We are witnessing a shift in the original rationale behind the unique relationship between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries of the ACP group, which goes beyond the logic of "unilateral aid transfer", "donor-recipient approach" and "North-South dialogue".
Opinion: Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) - Only 50 years of Cold War (and the fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up in East Germany) can possibly explain the strange political power of the United States over Europe.
Israel, Hamas Escape U.N.’s List of Shame on Attacks on Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 08 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, reportedly under heavy pressure from the United States and Israel, has decided not to blacklist the Jewish state in an annex to a new U.N. report on children victimised in armed conflicts.
Opinion: Minsk Agreements, the Only Path to Peace in Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 08 (IPS) - The "U.N. Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine", which was referred to in an Inter Press Service (IPS) article of Jun. 2, does not, in my view, reflect many salient points.
Fishing and Farming in Gaza is a Deadly Business
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jun 08 (IPS) - Three Palestinian fishermen were injured last week after Israeli naval forces opened fire on fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniyya in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing to 15 the number of farmers and fishermen shot and injured by Israeli security forces as they attempted to earn a living.
G7’s Coal Addiction Behind Hunger
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 06 (IPS) - As heads of state and government of the G7 states prepare for their Jun. 7-8 summit in Germany, Oxfam has released a new report titled Let Them Eat Coal which they may find hard to digest.
Exodus in the Bay of Bengal
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - For a while it went unnoticed: a boatload of migrants here, a vessel full of refugees there. But since 2012, the complex and unregulated movement of human beings through South and Southeast Asia– and the fate of those who put their lives in the hands of smugglers and at the mercy of the high seas – is becoming bleaker with each passing day.
The U.N. at 70: A Time for Reflection and Reform
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 05 (IPS) - Seventy years since its inception, the United Nations remains at the core of the multilateral system. The world body, together with the Bretton Woods institutions, was conceived in the mid-1940s by the architects of the postwar order with the central aim of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war on the one hand, and the need to reconstruct and revive the global economy on the other.
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